volage
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Adjective
editvolage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)
- (archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editvolage (plural volages)
Further reading
edit- “volage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editAdjective
editvolage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular volage)
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